Comparing the Characters of The Stranger (The Outsider) and The Trial :: comparison compare contrast essays

Characters ofCamus The Stranger (The foreigner) andKafkas The Trial The partings of the chaplain, in Albert Camus The Outsider, and the priest, in Franz Kafkas The Trial, are quite similar, and are pivotal to the development of the novel. These characters serve fundamentally to bring the question of God and religion to probe the existentialist philosopher aspects of it, in novels completely devoid of religious context. The main idea visible astir(predicate) these 2 characters is that they are both the proceed ones seen by the protagonists, Mearsault and K., both non-believers in the word of the lord. Whereas the chaplain in The Outsider tries to make Mearsault believe in the introduction of god, the priest tries to warn and explain to K. what will happen to him. The think the chaplain is the last one to see Mearsault is becasue its his job to let the prisioners have a final shot at redemption before they are executed. The reason that K. meets with the priest is out of advi ce given to him by someone, and he is the last character that he shows K. interacting with (although it might be true that K. meets and interacts with other people afterwards the meeting, provided they are neither mentioned nor visible later on). The priest doesnt try and make K. confess or anything of the sort, he is mainly thither to converse with the character, his religious position is almost put to no use. The existentialist view of religion is that humans have been alienated from god, from each other, and so forth. In the novel Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the christian idea of redemption through suffering is omni evidence throughout the novel. What is visible with The Trial and The Outsider is that they dont touch on the aspect of religion ofttimes throughout the story (The Outsider has bits and pieces of it appearing in his cross examinations but they are used more to mock than in an analitical sense). The presence of these two characters at the end of the novel serves to cover all the existentialist areas cognise to existemtialists (although it is doubtful whether the authors consciously attempted to make the characters present because of any existentialist rules they had to follow). The characters are required to structure the novels, beside the obvious existentialist areas.